If there was something I wish I could do, it would be to get YOU ALL to watch Dylan Ratigan once a week. No he's not leftist nutjob, or tighty righty. He's a guy that knows exactly who's to blame, and it's BOTH SIDES! He's an analyst for Bloomburg, who just got totally fed up with the crap being peddled by Wall Street and the Bankers, who decided to create a show that would take them to task. He hits both the left and the right as hard as they can be hit. And no, I don't think anybody can take him daily, but what he has to say is worth it in understanding why it's going to take maybe generations to fix what's wrong with America. It will take that long to unspin and settle down.
Frankly, I want to stream the whole show from today (7/29/11) to you. The important thing was where it all started, with deregulating the banks under Clinton. How that got more screwed up under Bush (adding Prescription Drugs, Wars, and Tax breaks), and how now, they've totally corrupted Obama with this bad bad burrito of bad ideas, that he can't seem to end, but is finding a way to stomach. I'll embedded it as soon as I can find it.
The point is, that yes I'm angry with Obama. More so, that those who just hate him because he's a Democrat (and black). I'm annoyed, angry, but I have to vote for him again. See 'Best o' if you don't know why! He's too much Wall Street's president, and less so mine! I have all the influence that I'm afraid I have. But getting Democrats back in power is our nation's best HOPE to effect true reforms to set this country back on a solid footing.
Dear Mr and Mrs America; Please stop voting for D students, who will not simply and routinely raise the credit ceiling, like it has always been done before. There is a point where you have to stop politicking and have to start governing. 25 people have this fucked up for Republicans. 25 people can fix it by crossing the aisle.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
to fight the unbeatable foe
Yes, Don Quixote has come to mind. In the World of Imagination today, nobody prays or goes to church, they are pulled and prodded into perdition, doomed! Worthless bastards!
This is nonsense. I've never seen a generation that is MORE CHRISTIAN! But because you don't have 1000% compliance to YOUR WILL... There have never been so many true believers.
Why, because everything else in life has been a lie!!! You are in quicksand praying that the neighbor goes under first so you can stand one his head for a while. Yes, we are now that desperate, and it show in EVERY MEGA CHURCH that is built.
However, while they profess Christ, do they actually serve him? Jesus of the gospels is a rebel, a progressive, a reformer, and a hater of hypocrites. Instead of condemnation he brought redemption to even the worsted of sinners. But once they are kind to each other, so they think they are to all men. As long as their not a Democrat.
REALITY CHECK TIME!
IT'S BEEN 2000 YEARS, WHO IN WESTERN CULTURE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE GOSPEL? WHO DIDN'T GET THE MESSAGE? WHO?
Mega Churches will come, and they will decline and go. It is an ebb and flow, same as the tides, and business, and politics, and ...
What I don't understand is; Why the paranoia?
Facts are that we are at a turning point in human history. The science is in, and it dispels the myth of creation (so what?). It dispels the myth of Noah (so what?). It dispels the myth Tower of Babble (so what?). I can go on and on. Faith doesn't need these things as FACTS, only fundamentalist do, and they've already lost that fight to science! Church leadership has never been more stupid, and less educated, which might be why some churches are empty. Smart Churches know that none of that is important to the message of the Gospel. Jesus doesn't need to ever really walk on water. The older I get, the more I become convinced that maybe Romans are right, in that God's Law shouldn't come from a book, but be as living as the times we live in, and even as diverse (which is something they don't embrace). Christianity can not survive in it's current state of hardheadedness and denial. Eventually it will adapt to the new reality, as much as realizing that the world is round like the ball, so there is no underworld. We do not live in a giant snow globe on God's knee, get over it. Your building your house on sand. Jesus wouldn't, he would be progressive, a reformer, he would embrace truth first.
If Churches are failing it's not Christ that has failed...
To dream the impossible dream.
Crazy people, why am I so surrounded by crazy people? What annoys me most is, they all know better, but crazy is acceptable.
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This is nonsense. I've never seen a generation that is MORE CHRISTIAN! But because you don't have 1000% compliance to YOUR WILL... There have never been so many true believers.
Why, because everything else in life has been a lie!!! You are in quicksand praying that the neighbor goes under first so you can stand one his head for a while. Yes, we are now that desperate, and it show in EVERY MEGA CHURCH that is built.
However, while they profess Christ, do they actually serve him? Jesus of the gospels is a rebel, a progressive, a reformer, and a hater of hypocrites. Instead of condemnation he brought redemption to even the worsted of sinners. But once they are kind to each other, so they think they are to all men. As long as their not a Democrat.
REALITY CHECK TIME!
IT'S BEEN 2000 YEARS, WHO IN WESTERN CULTURE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE GOSPEL? WHO DIDN'T GET THE MESSAGE? WHO?
Mega Churches will come, and they will decline and go. It is an ebb and flow, same as the tides, and business, and politics, and ...
What I don't understand is; Why the paranoia?
Facts are that we are at a turning point in human history. The science is in, and it dispels the myth of creation (so what?). It dispels the myth of Noah (so what?). It dispels the myth Tower of Babble (so what?). I can go on and on. Faith doesn't need these things as FACTS, only fundamentalist do, and they've already lost that fight to science! Church leadership has never been more stupid, and less educated, which might be why some churches are empty. Smart Churches know that none of that is important to the message of the Gospel. Jesus doesn't need to ever really walk on water. The older I get, the more I become convinced that maybe Romans are right, in that God's Law shouldn't come from a book, but be as living as the times we live in, and even as diverse (which is something they don't embrace). Christianity can not survive in it's current state of hardheadedness and denial. Eventually it will adapt to the new reality, as much as realizing that the world is round like the ball, so there is no underworld. We do not live in a giant snow globe on God's knee, get over it. Your building your house on sand. Jesus wouldn't, he would be progressive, a reformer, he would embrace truth first.
If Churches are failing it's not Christ that has failed...
To dream the impossible dream.
Crazy people, why am I so surrounded by crazy people? What annoys me most is, they all know better, but crazy is acceptable.
_
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Under Review
Imagine that, I deleted a post!
Why? I'm no fan of Amy Winehouse, and I while I would like to make a positive point from her, I honestly feel for her parents. And I feel deeply for her parents. So, I'm eating what I had to say. Never mind. I was totally wrong. She's gone, RIP. Not my place to judge. Forgive me?
I don't spend a lot of time on the Debt Ceiling crisis. Other than to say get it done! The reason is that I'm not economist. Frankly I haven't a clue what it's about? I do know that this is about money we already spent, and not money we're going to spend, which is how it's being presented by the Republicans. But what I understand in this; is Politics.
Bush failed. There is no spin that can be made for that, it crashed because of his policies, and at the end of his watch. He wanted to be the President that put more people in a home, than any other in history, and he did. Even if they didn't have a way to pay for it.
Politics at it's worsted acts exactly like a spoiled brat. Our guy failed, no way, you failed, YOU failed!! Then they start engineering failures. So far, President Obama always lands on his feet. And there's still the 14 Amendment, which he can invoke the privilege of, so the Republicans in the House really can't win, except on one issue; Taxes. All Taxes must start in the House. Which is a fight for another day.
Republicans, YOU CAN'T WIN!!! Stop being stupid, and hurting any chance you have in 2012, and get THE PEOPLES WORK DONE! Breaking unions, is not in the public interest- cut it out! Get the debt limit done, and start a jobs bill! Or just be LOOSERS! I SMELL LOOSERS! There's loosers in the House! Loosers in the House!
Why? I'm no fan of Amy Winehouse, and I while I would like to make a positive point from her, I honestly feel for her parents. And I feel deeply for her parents. So, I'm eating what I had to say. Never mind. I was totally wrong. She's gone, RIP. Not my place to judge. Forgive me?
I don't spend a lot of time on the Debt Ceiling crisis. Other than to say get it done! The reason is that I'm not economist. Frankly I haven't a clue what it's about? I do know that this is about money we already spent, and not money we're going to spend, which is how it's being presented by the Republicans. But what I understand in this; is Politics.
Bush failed. There is no spin that can be made for that, it crashed because of his policies, and at the end of his watch. He wanted to be the President that put more people in a home, than any other in history, and he did. Even if they didn't have a way to pay for it.
Politics at it's worsted acts exactly like a spoiled brat. Our guy failed, no way, you failed, YOU failed!! Then they start engineering failures. So far, President Obama always lands on his feet. And there's still the 14 Amendment, which he can invoke the privilege of, so the Republicans in the House really can't win, except on one issue; Taxes. All Taxes must start in the House. Which is a fight for another day.
Republicans, YOU CAN'T WIN!!! Stop being stupid, and hurting any chance you have in 2012, and get THE PEOPLES WORK DONE! Breaking unions, is not in the public interest- cut it out! Get the debt limit done, and start a jobs bill! Or just be LOOSERS! I SMELL LOOSERS! There's loosers in the House! Loosers in the House!
Friday, July 22, 2011
Outreach and Rehabilitation
Hey BRICK WALL, get out of the way of my HEAD!!!
A lot of this blog is just PURE HATE and RAGE, coming from me. Things are just so outrageous. Fact #1: Mitch McConnell has said, and so has John Beohner; "When it comes to a Democrat President, we just wont let him be a Democrat." That wouldn't be a bad strategy if that's what they were doing, but it's not. They taken gridlock to a whole new level, to total irresponsibility with their partisan ideology.
When Democrats had the majority in the House, there was nothing they could do there to disrupt. So we got to learn that ANY senator can stop everything with a "secret hold". So the senate was totally dysfunctional during that time, which lead to voter outrage. Which the republicans did a SUPER job of misdirecting.
The midterms came, only old Republican voters were motivated (by lies) went to the poles, so Republicans won the House, at the worsted possible time. Now that we're over the tough stuff, it's time to wind down the wars, and pay for the dept. Which means raising taxes revenues. It an issue that by the Constitution has to start in the House. So we have not only Tea Party Zealots but Grover Norquist's Anti-Tax Pledge standing in the way. You want AMERICA to pay it's bills off, but you don't want them to 'take away private jets tax breaks'? Yes, I hate to be such a parrot about this, but it's the perfect example, because we weren't offering new taxes on anyone, just doing away with breaks for second homes, planes, ...
I woke up this morning realizing that my dreams all night were trying to tell me one thing about this stupid BUSINESS FIRST philosophy embraced by the Republicans. Rich people think that money outweighs voters. They don't want a system of One Man One Vote, because voters can say NO to them, and NO is never acceptable. Human decency says that "No means NO!" But these are truly spoiled children, misbehaving. 'I have a billion dollars, how dare you tell me what I can and can not do?' is their attitude. So they picked one party, and used it to nearly totally take over Federal Courts, and the Supreme Court, with rules that favor Business over Citizens. Which has ruled that Corporations are People too, and who can now give as much money as they want to a political campaign. Their last crazy ruling was that some law suits are too big to sue. Which is the craziest ruling of all time!!! So nobody can have a class action against a multinational? What about People vs... (such as criminal cases)? To many plaintiffs? We are already over the slippery slope.
Yeah, yeah, yeah! I've lost my point here, because this is a full rant unto itself.
We're already over the slope, and holding onto each other by the ankles. Yet the Republicans are continuing their war on unions. Now not just Kindergarten teachers, but also anybody who works for an airline. Are you kidding me? What's it going to take to get the message out, and understood?
I am exasperated. We are still ruled by One Man, One Vote. How do we stop the shouting back, and get good people to understand they've been had? "..by a system that sold them down the river 30 years ago."- George Carlin.
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A lot of this blog is just PURE HATE and RAGE, coming from me. Things are just so outrageous. Fact #1: Mitch McConnell has said, and so has John Beohner; "When it comes to a Democrat President, we just wont let him be a Democrat." That wouldn't be a bad strategy if that's what they were doing, but it's not. They taken gridlock to a whole new level, to total irresponsibility with their partisan ideology.
When Democrats had the majority in the House, there was nothing they could do there to disrupt. So we got to learn that ANY senator can stop everything with a "secret hold". So the senate was totally dysfunctional during that time, which lead to voter outrage. Which the republicans did a SUPER job of misdirecting.
The midterms came, only old Republican voters were motivated (by lies) went to the poles, so Republicans won the House, at the worsted possible time. Now that we're over the tough stuff, it's time to wind down the wars, and pay for the dept. Which means raising taxes revenues. It an issue that by the Constitution has to start in the House. So we have not only Tea Party Zealots but Grover Norquist's Anti-Tax Pledge standing in the way. You want AMERICA to pay it's bills off, but you don't want them to 'take away private jets tax breaks'? Yes, I hate to be such a parrot about this, but it's the perfect example, because we weren't offering new taxes on anyone, just doing away with breaks for second homes, planes, ...
I woke up this morning realizing that my dreams all night were trying to tell me one thing about this stupid BUSINESS FIRST philosophy embraced by the Republicans. Rich people think that money outweighs voters. They don't want a system of One Man One Vote, because voters can say NO to them, and NO is never acceptable. Human decency says that "No means NO!" But these are truly spoiled children, misbehaving. 'I have a billion dollars, how dare you tell me what I can and can not do?' is their attitude. So they picked one party, and used it to nearly totally take over Federal Courts, and the Supreme Court, with rules that favor Business over Citizens. Which has ruled that Corporations are People too, and who can now give as much money as they want to a political campaign. Their last crazy ruling was that some law suits are too big to sue. Which is the craziest ruling of all time!!! So nobody can have a class action against a multinational? What about People vs... (such as criminal cases)? To many plaintiffs? We are already over the slippery slope.
Yeah, yeah, yeah! I've lost my point here, because this is a full rant unto itself.
We're already over the slope, and holding onto each other by the ankles. Yet the Republicans are continuing their war on unions. Now not just Kindergarten teachers, but also anybody who works for an airline. Are you kidding me? What's it going to take to get the message out, and understood?
I am exasperated. We are still ruled by One Man, One Vote. How do we stop the shouting back, and get good people to understand they've been had? "..by a system that sold them down the river 30 years ago."- George Carlin.
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Self indulgence
!!!ENOUGH POLITICS!!!
Yes, it's just a stupid Bangles song! But there's just something about Susanna Hoffs. That girl's gaze could start wars and light spot fires. Looking at them as an old man now, their all awesome to look at. So it's here as candy, must be nice to be twenty something forever? Not that the giant smile of Michael Steele was something you could ignore. Thankfully, in my early 20's they were a "Chick band", and easy to ignore, or I'd have been scarred for life!
Rock on Susanna!
(SOB she's older than me? Whatever she's pickled in, get me a vat of it!)
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Yes, it's just a stupid Bangles song! But there's just something about Susanna Hoffs. That girl's gaze could start wars and light spot fires. Looking at them as an old man now, their all awesome to look at. So it's here as candy, must be nice to be twenty something forever? Not that the giant smile of Michael Steele was something you could ignore. Thankfully, in my early 20's they were a "Chick band", and easy to ignore, or I'd have been scarred for life!
Rock on Susanna!
(SOB she's older than me? Whatever she's pickled in, get me a vat of it!)
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Burning Down the HOUSE
Times up!
You ARE ALREADY HARMING THE REPUTATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
This is no longer a crisis, it's on fire.
How long will you let it burn out of control? And TAINT the Faith and Credit of your country, over BULLSHIT?
STOP YOUR TANTRUMS!
STOP BEING BABIES!
DROP THE POLITICS NOW, AND GET IT DONE!
DEADLINE: YESTERDAY!
Not one of you deserves another term. You deserve your rope for treason!
Dear America; Why did you send so many D students to Congress in the last election?
You ARE ALREADY HARMING THE REPUTATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
This is no longer a crisis, it's on fire.
How long will you let it burn out of control? And TAINT the Faith and Credit of your country, over BULLSHIT?
STOP YOUR TANTRUMS!
STOP BEING BABIES!
DROP THE POLITICS NOW, AND GET IT DONE!
DEADLINE: YESTERDAY!
Not one of you deserves another term. You deserve your rope for treason!
Dear America; Why did you send so many D students to Congress in the last election?
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Where's the President's Plan
I woke this morning to this rhetoric?
Ok, where did we start? President Obama wanted a strait vote on raising the Dept Ceiling. But THE REPUBLICANS again try to take it hostage, saying; "NO CUTS, NO RAISE".
Which started a hostage negotiation.
The only agreement was; Unless EVERYTHING was AGREED TO, NOTHING WAS AGREED TO.
The REPUBLICANS said we want 2 Trillion Dollars in cuts, the President said; Let's make it 4. We'll even cut MEDICARE in exchange for some TAX REFORMS.
Everything dealing with TAXES has to start in the HOUSE, which is under Republican control, who refuse to even close Tax Loopholes (not create new taxes)!
So it's true; The President has no plan!
But who's fault is that?
Ok, where did we start? President Obama wanted a strait vote on raising the Dept Ceiling. But THE REPUBLICANS again try to take it hostage, saying; "NO CUTS, NO RAISE".
Which started a hostage negotiation.
The only agreement was; Unless EVERYTHING was AGREED TO, NOTHING WAS AGREED TO.
The REPUBLICANS said we want 2 Trillion Dollars in cuts, the President said; Let's make it 4. We'll even cut MEDICARE in exchange for some TAX REFORMS.
Everything dealing with TAXES has to start in the HOUSE, which is under Republican control, who refuse to even close Tax Loopholes (not create new taxes)!
So it's true; The President has no plan!
But who's fault is that?
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